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Even hours before it is to kick off, Democratic and Republican operatives are engaged in verbal skirmishes about the VP debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. And no one’s giving ground. We give you two of them who frequently go toe to toe here in the nation’s most populous state — Los Angeles Mayor […] …

What is it about Hungarian-born billionaires and political activism? Meet Thomas Peterffy, who is emerging as the conservative yin to the liberal yang of fellow countryman George Soros. The 68-year-old discount brokerage pioneer and Greenwich, Conn., transplant, who Forbes.com estimates is worth a handsome $4.6 billion, is creating quite the buzz in the political world […] …

Last year, back when Paul Ryan was being considered for the Person of the Year cover, TIME Magazine sat down with the Wisconsin politician for a photo shoot — but not just any photo shoot — a gloriously ridiculous P90X beefcake photo shoot. The magazine released the photos today, just hours before this vice-presidential debate. […] …

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: On October 11, 2002, the U.S. Senate vote in favor of Joint Resolution 114. Both houses of Congress passed the resolution to support U.S. President George W. Bush in the use of force against Iraq.
Few things in the past ten years … …

While Nate Silver and the many of the nation’s pollsters are calling this year’s presidential election pretty much a dead heat, the president is taking a commanding leading in at least one poll. Convenience store mega chain 7-Eleven is selling barely drinkable coffee in either blue paper Obama cups or a red Romney variation and tallying […] …

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who sat in the Denver debate audience where Barack Obama met up with Mitt Romney, isn’t looking back when asked about the lackluster performance of the president last week. In a San Francisco Chronicle editorial board meeting Wednesday, the San Francisco Democrat was animated, passionate — and positively fired up […] …

Davis — Former President Bill Clinton — aka the Secretary of Explaining Stuff — was the reason that many in the crowd of 8,000 massed in the UC-Davis main quad Tuesday, as we noted in our story in Wednesday’s Chronicle. The point of the exercise — politically, that is — came at the very end, […] …

Maybe Republican Mitt Romney, enjoying a post-debate bounce, is back on top of some of those national polls. But in San Francisco — the bluest of the blue strongholds — President Obama is always the big draw. And on Monday, thousands lined up outside the city’s venerable Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, waiting for hours in […] …

Loose lips sink campaigns for President, and Joe Biden blew himself out of the water in 1988 and 2008 runs for White House, the second time out when he tried to flatter then-Sen. Barack Obama. “I mean you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy: I […] …